CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- A groundbreaking cancer treatment is now available in the Queen City. 

  • Car-T therapy is now available at Levine Cancer Institute in Charlotte
  • The treatment takes the patient's T-Cells, engineers them, and injects them back into the body to fight the cancer
  • Right now, this treatment is only available for certain types of leukemia and lymphoma

Car-T therapy was approved by the FDA in late 2017, and is only available at a handful of hospitals around the country. The Levine Cancer Institute in Charlotte is now one of the hospitals offering the treatment for patients. 

Doctors say the treatment takes the patient's T-Cells, engineers them, and injects them back into the body to fight the cancer. 

Dr. Nilanjan Ghosh at the Levine Cancer Institute says this treatment is giving patients with life-threatening illnesses hope for a better future. 

"This really gives a lot of hope to patients, to the physicians who are treating them when you start seeing good outcomes in patients who have failed multiple other standard treatments. So it's a real big game-changer," he said. 

Dr. Robyn Stacy Humphries was diagnosed with lymphoma three times, and says this treatment was her only chance for a normal life. 

"When it came back for a third time, I knew that I would probably die from this disease. I was out on a limb, and yet this was my only hope," she said. 

Right now, this treatment is only available for certain types of leukemia and lymphoma. 

Doctors say they are working on expanding the clinical trials for other types of cancer, including myeloma, and hopefully one day tumorous cancers.

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